ἐργοδιωκτής
taskmaster, overseer
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐργοδιωκτής appears in the Greek Septuagint — 6 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 3:7 ἐργοδιωκτής And the Lord said to Moses, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and I have heard their cry caused by their taskmasters; for I know their affliction.
- Exodus 5:6 ἐργοδιωκτής And Pharao gave orders to the taskmasters of the people and the accountants, saying,
- Exodus 5:10 ἐργοδιωκτής And the taskmasters and the accountants hastened them, and they spoke to the people, saying, thus says Pharao, I will give you straw no longer.
- Exodus 5:13 ἐργοδιωκτής and the taskmasters hastened them, saying, Fulfil your regular daily tasks, even as when straw was given you.
- 1 Chronicles 23:4 ἐργοδιωκτής Of the overseers over the works of the house of the Lord there were twenty-four thousand, and there were six thousand scribes and judges;
- 2 Chronicles 2:17 ἐργοδιωκτής And Solomon gathered all the foreigners that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father numbered them; and there were found one hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred.
About this word
About this word
ἐργοδιωκτής (ergodiōktḗs), “taskmaster, overseer,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 6 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →